YANKEE HATERS

WITH their beloved Pinstripes vying for the wild-card spot in the playoffs, Yankee fans were outraged yesterday to read in The New York Times, in a story about the lack of street signs leading to the stadium: “But fear not: Come October there’ll be no reason to go there anyway.” The Times has been accused of anti-Yankee bias before. Two years ago – after an editorial accused the team of “acting like a superstar free agent and asking for the moon” in its plans for its new stadium – a Bronx insider snickered, “The Gray Lady’s Red Sox are showing.” The Times Co. is part owner of the cursed Boston team. A Times rep dismissed the bias charge as “ludicrous,” claiming, “The line in the Metro section article you refer to was written tongue in cheek.”